Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction by Chris Bailey EPUB & PDF

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• Author Name: Chris Bailey
• Book Genre: Business, Nonfiction, Personal Development, Productivity, Psychology, Self Help
• ISBN # 9780525522249
• Date of Publication: 2018-8-28
• PDF / EPUB File Name: Hyperfocus_-_Chris_Bailey.pdf, Hyperfocus_-_Chris_Bailey.epub
• PDF File Size: 11 MB
• EPUB File Size: 5.7 MB

WHY FOCUS MATTERS

Attention Is Everywhere
I’m writing these words over the sounds of clanging cutlery and
muffled conversation at a small diner in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
I’ve always been a fan of people-watching. There’s so much to
take in—how they dress, walk, converse, and act when they’re either
around or not around others. At a busy café, or at a diner like this, it’s
fun to see personalities collide like particles in an accelerator; to observe
a guy’s personality change when he switches from talking to his friend to
chatting up the waitress; to watch the personalities of waitstaff shift
when serving each table, adapting to large families, young couples.
In focusing on other people, I’ve made a lot of observations about
what those people are focusing on. In any given moment, we are all
focusing on something, even if we’re just lost in our internal thoughts.
Let’s take a glance through the diner.

I turn my attention first to the two twentysomething girls at the table
to my left, who are mostly focusing on their smartphones instead of each
other. Between bouts of texting, they flip their phones facedown on the
table. This, it seems, is a pretty pointless gesture—they’ve picked them
back up thirty seconds later. While I can’t make out their every word, I
can tell they’re skimming the surface of the conversation they could be
having. They’re with each other in person, but their attention is
elsewhere.

Or take the couple across the room. They’re engrossed in a
conversation fueled by hot coffee and buttermilk pancakes. They were
engaged in relatively quiet small talk when they arrived, but their
conversation soon became more animated. Unlike the girls, this couple
has focused only on each other since sitting down.

A catchy Ed Sheeran song comes on over the restaurant’s speakers,
and my attention is drawn to the two guys sitting a few tables over from
the couple. One of them subtly taps his foot to the beat while his friend
orders. The foot tapper is presumably spreading his attention across three
things: the song, what his friend is ordering, and his own breakfast
I decision. After he orders the Three Egg Express, when the server asks
how he’d like his eggs prepared, he directs his attention inward,
seemingly recalling how he usually takes them. He orders scrambled.

At the bar are a few strangers making idle conversation while
watching last night’s football highlights. I find it especially fascinating
that millions of people around the world, including these three guys, are
fixated on an eleven-inch piece of tanned cowhide. As I watch, one of
the guys cocks his head, lost in thought. Then, as though a shock wave
was traveling through his body, he rushes to capture an idea in his
pocketed notepad. While he was lost in a daydream, and to the tune of
football highlights, an insight struck from out of the blue. He had a
eureka moment.

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